Month: October 2014

Single-Root I/O Virtualization

SR-IOV is a hardware solution based on PCI-SIG I/O Virtualization (IOV) specifications that is designed to replace the role of software in virtual machine connectivity and leverage hardware features to scale up hosts more, to accelerate performance, to reduce latency,

What is NIC teaming?

It is a group NICs together to act as a single unit.Some Advantage of NIC Teaming:

Load Balancing When we have two or more NICs, we can distribute and balance the network traffic across each NIC in a team.
Hint: when you team together two 10 GbE NICs, you don’t get a 20 GbE pipe, Instead you get the ability to distribute traffic across two 10 GbE NICs

Failover Services that are important to the business usually have a service-level agreement (SLA) indicating that they must be available to the customer a certain percentage of the time.
To avoid single faulty switch to bring down the entire service by affecting network s availability; it is a Network features like fault-tolerant storage and highly available Hyper-V hosts

There is no need any more for hardware manufacture NIC Team solution, which was not supported by Microsoft.

NIC Team is a feature added to Microsoft windows 2012, and it is hardware independent; that mean you can build NIC team even by using different model, from any manufacturer and can even be of different speeds(not recommended).

When we hear about proxy server; the first thing comes in our mind is the server which forwards the Request to internet (for internet access) and that is not wrong
Proxy server mostly used in every environment in Forward Proxy Server Mode
My goal is to cover what is a proxy server, and what is different proxy server’s mode,

In addition to newly added Distributed switch in windows 2012, there are three kinds of virtual switches in windows Hyper-V, and each kind will connect the virtual NICs of virtual machines to a different kind of network.

Windows Server Update Services, is a free Microsoft product, services all of the Microsoft product range and makes it easier for administrators or security officers to test and deploy updates on a production network.